Disability Models and Web Accessibility

Outstanding overview of the models of disability and accessibility from Martyn Cooper.

The social model… is important in accessibility considerations because it recognises the importance of the context of the users and supports the view of accessibility as a relationship property; in the case of web accessibility the relationship being between the diversity of users and the web resource or application.

Read Models of Disability and their Relation to Accessibility

  1. Thanks for the strong endorsement of my blog post on Models of Disability and Accessibility. Just “standing on the shoulders of giants here”!

    Cheers,

    Martyn